Exploration Analyst
Petroleum play, mineral & carbon storage assessment made easy
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August 28 2025
Exploration Analyst is an extension software for Esri's ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro that helps energy companies make better exploration decisions through advanced assessment techniques. The software specializes in petroleum play analysis, mineral exploration, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) prospectivity using industry best practice play-based exploration methods.
The tool allows users to combine proprietary, vendor, and public domain data to create comprehensive geological assessments. Key capabilities include generating play chance maps to identify exploration fairways and sweet spots, creating favourability maps for CCS aquifers and mineral targets, and validating these maps against actual well results. Users can analyze basin and play activity, estimate yet-to-find volumes, and rapidly screen acreage to prioritize blocks and leases while assessing competitor positions.
Exploration Analyst operates at the play or aquifer level rather than individual prospect level, helping discover previously unseen exploration opportunities. The software creates individual chance of success layers for separate geological elements including reservoir, trap, and seal factors. These layers can be constructed from hard data or conceptual sketches and combined into comprehensive geologic play-chance models.
The platform improves communication between teams and disciplines by providing fully auditable results through summary reports and maps.
Pros & Limitations
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Easy-to-use and data agnostic, allowing combination of in-house, vendor and public domain data
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Creates play chance maps to identify play fairways and sweet spots
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Validates play chance maps against well results
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Estimates basin/play yet-to-find volumes
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Rapidly screens acreage to prioritise blocks/leases and assess competitor positions
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Applies industry best practice energy resource assessment workflows
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Focuses exploration at play or aquifer level to discover previously unseen opportunities
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Improves communication between teams, disciplines, and management with auditable results
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Agnostic compilation of proprietary, vendor, and public data
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Efficient integration of inputs from multiple disciplines
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Auditable conclusions that can be validated against well results
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Volumetrics and risk evaluated in a single application
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Workflows can be standardised and shared using Tasks
Specification
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Primary purpose
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Assess potential carbon-dioxide storage capacity and petroleum/mineral exploration
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Key capabilities
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Maps storage segments with common risk profiles, High-grades storage areas with best Chance of Success (COS), Validates COS maps against well results, Calculates prospect volumetrics, Performs multi-criteria block or lease analyses
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Geological elements
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Reservoir, trap, seal factors
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Data compatibility
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Agnostic - proprietary, vendor, and public data'
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Input flexibility
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Rigorously derived from data or sketched from concepts
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Workflow features
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Standardized workflows using Tasks and batch processing
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Output formats
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Summary maps, graphs, reports
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Industries served
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Petroleum, Mining, Carbon Capture & Storage
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Mature / Proven
Getech is a company that applies world-leading geoscience data and unique geospatial software products to locate subsurface resources that are vital for energy security and a sustainable transition. The company has established itself within energy markets by assisting some of the world's largest and most innovative companies through a unique combination of products and services. While historically focused on hydrocarbon operations that have driven high-margin orderbooks and recurring revenue growth, Getech is now strategically growing and diversifying its work by leveraging existing customer relationships, products, skills and technologies to target new commercial opportunities that accelerate the global transition to a low carbon economy. Their offerings span across petroleum exploration and field management, critical minerals identification, natural hydrogen exploration, geothermal energy development, carbon capture and storage, and decarbonization services, utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms combined with proprietary gravity and magnetic data to provide actionable insights that deliver measurable value to their clients.
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United Kingdom
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